Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-06-04
The Lrlso ngNTRAl.

The ILLINOIS CENTRAL.
The Yankton and sioux Fails Exten-
sioas-To Buald to Nankton this Year.
other Railroad Matters.
Il LING CENTRAL.
The Freepors, Illinois, Bulletin. CON
taIns some fresh information relative 10
the extension Of the illinois Central to
Yankton. Freepost is headquarters for
many of the minor off cials of the Central
and a good point from which to obtain
information. The belief there is that
the Yankton extension will be- built TINS
year and will go on to the Black Hills
next year, The Bulletin OF June 1st
says:
1t seems that the Illinois Central rail-
road company, now that it has COM
meneed building extensions to its pres.
emit lines, or entire new roads, is to keen
1t up Tor some time to come, 1t is
stated on good authority that the com-
pany o contemplates the construction
of about 800 miles more. OF new road.
most of which will be in Iowa. This is
divided into three different pieces, the
preliminary survey of which is to be
made forthwith. One of these lines
the Bulletin ls informed. is to be built
from Lemars, la, about n~inety-fiye
miles northwest to Yanktop, Dakota ter.
ritory. This line will be surveyed al
once. Engineer A. X. Shurtleff, who
has made Freeport his Headquarters the
past winter and spring as resident en-
gineer for the Minnesota u Northwest.
err railroad, lett the city this afternoon
Tor Cherokee, where he will take charge
OF party oil engineers who will at o
commence work on the above line. He
SAID this morning he understood that it
was intended to build this road this &
If q satisfactory line could be found, as
was expected,
Irslnmaster Chas. x. Dixon, OF the
Illinois Centrals Iowa division. with
headquarters st Waterloo, in Freeport
this morning said to a representative OF
the Bulletin that he believed the lines
from LeMars to Yankton and from
Cherokee to Sioux Falls. would be- built
this year. AS to the one from Usage
west he did not feel so sure. When all
these new lines in Dakota and Iowa are
completed and pouring their business
through Freepcrt to Chicago and the
east, the Illinois Central track in Illinois
will be Kept pretty hot. II the business
continues TO increase very rapidly q
doable track through this state will be
o necessity.
There are to be seven engineering par.
} ties at onoe placed in the field to run
these new lines of the Illinois Central
Irainmaster Dixon said that superinten.
dent Gllleas, of the Iowa division would
have charge of all of them. Chief Engi.
neer Randolph, OF the Chicago, Madison
Il Northern, has all he can attend to
now.
General Manager Jeffrey, President
CLARK and other officials of the IlIinoie
Central had more than one object in
view when making their tour to western
Iowa last week.
THE MILWAUKEE SHOPS.
Sioux City journal, 4Sn: The Mil
waukee company has the plans prepared
Tor q twenty-five stall round-ho1se, ex-
tensiye coal sheds and large repair shops
That it will build near the Floyd, only G
short distance from the railroad bridge,
In asking the vacation or q portion of
Grant street, i'll Felt's addition, it asks
only what Is necessary for the proper
operation OF Its business. The shops
that will be built are not extensive, but
they Will make q start, with splendid
prospects of additions as soon as neces-
sity demands it. The repairing for the
Sioux City and Dakota division win be
done here, and arrangements for doing
new work probably made later.
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION.
Articles of incorporation of the Omaha
Wayne & Yankton r. r.. Co., will be
flied with secretary of state at Lincoln,
this r1Aeeks<llThe inenrnaratnra sys=Hr.
Mercer and Mr.. Ballou, of Omaha, John
u. Bressier, A. b. Slater and John c.
Bennett, of Wayne and Mayor j. r.
Hanson and Commodore Ooulson, Of
Yankton. A survey and location of the
line will be commenced at once, and
completed as speedily as possible, after
which the promised aid will be asked for
structioE will be begun and the road
completed and equipped ready for oper.
asion before the close Of the year il DOS.
sibie. The Omaha. Wayne & Yankton
must be built.
CROWDED BY THE oMAHA-YANKToN.
Ponoa Journal: Il ia ramored, but
whsther there is any truth in it or not
We do not know, that the railroad will
immediately be extended from this
place estward on the old grade. The
old grade or which much work was done
by the old defunct narrow guage com-
pany was sold by that company to the
present company. The time has, we
hear, nearly arrived when the road must
be extended on suoh grade or it will bs
forfeited and revert back to the former
owners. If this be go, it is a certain fact
that it this company ever intend to ex-
tend their road, it will be done now, in
order to a v their strip of land some 35
miles long and on which a great many
Thousand dollars have been already ex-
pended for labor and material.
A CONSOLIDATION.
Omaha Bee: There was a fnll repre-.
eentation of the directors 81 the Omaha
& Southern and Omaha, Southwestern &
Kansas railroads at the office of Bartlett
u Cornish yesterday afternoon. The
object OF the meeting was che consolida-
ton OF these roads, and it YVES accom-
plished by the acceptance by the Omaha
road OF the papers for consolidation sub
United by the Kansas stockholders. I'm.
der b articles of consolidation the road
Will be known as the Chicago. Omaha
q Southwestern railway. No other
business of public interest wat transacted
81 Yesterdays meeting and adjournment
was taken subject to call by the board OF
directors.
THE NEW MILWAUKEE, TIME CARD.
The time card which goes into effect
on the G. M. d st. Paul railroad to-
morrow which arranges for the rupn1np